JMicron controller to significantly lower SSD prices

Solid state drives have come a long way both in terms of performance and capacity. Prices have come down significantly as well yet compared to traditional storage solutions they are hardly ever justifiable for the average user. JMicron intends to take a big step towards changing that, with claims that it has come up with a breakthrough design which could see current prices slashed by up to 50 percent.

@Captain828 Your price analysis is correct, by the time you hit a sweet spot between getting 2.5TB for $200 or a 256GB SSD drive that is about twice as fast, many will be jumping on the SSD bandwagon. But until then only early adopters and enthusiasts will feel buying a SSD drive is worth the price.

Well you can get a OCZ Vortex for around $100. Sure only 30GB storage but wow. My computers acts like its from the future.Once people use a SSD there is no going back. My WD 7200 640GB 32MB cache raid 0 array seems so slow compared to this single drive now. I mean windows boots within 20 seconds and if I click on anything its instantly there. Amazing!